Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] vdpa: Remove ioctl VHOST_VDPA_SET_CONFIG per spec compliance
From: Jason Wang
Date: Tue Sep 03 2024 - 23:38:54 EST
On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 1:15 AM Carlos Bilbao
<carlos.bilbao.osdev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Carlos Bilbao <cbilbao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Remove invalid ioctl VHOST_VDPA_SET_CONFIG and all its implementations
> with vdpa_config_ops->set_config(). This is needed per virtio spec
> requirements; virtio-spec v3.1 Sec 5.1.4 states that "All of the device
> configuration fields are read-only for the driver."
>
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <cbilbao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Note that only the config space of the modern device is read only. So
it should be fine to remove vp_vdpa which only works for modern
devices.
And for eni, it is a legacy only device, so we should not move the
set_config there.
For the rest, we need the acks for those maintainers.
Thanks